Mike wakes up in the middle of the night to the sound of a snarl outside his window. He jolts upright and looks around his room to see if he was just imagining it or if it was really there. He hears it again. Mike looks at his window with a sense of danger. He goes to the window and peers through a small opening from his curtains. At first he sees nothing, then a large figure moves past his window and Mike jumps back at the size of it. He looks again out his window and tries to see if he can identify what the creature is. He spots it again, only a little farther from his house. It is a large troll. The troll is dragging on the ground a large club with spikes on top. It looks around like it is looking for something, or someone. It lets out a low yell and walks off to the woods and disappears. "What in the world is that thing doing around here???" Mike says to himself. "And what was it looking for?" Mike couldn't sleep for the rest of the night so he decided to play his favorite video game, The Legend of Zelda.
As Mike is playing his game, a strage figure watches him in a nearby tree. The figure watches him with curiosity and wonder. "He doesn't appear to be much does he?" the figure says. "But he is the one who will overcome the enemy. He has to be." The figure flies off and Mike is too transfixed in his game to realize the swoosh of the take-off.
Mike wakes up the next morning and realizes that he fell asleep playing his game, and the TV is one. "If my mom comes in and sees this, I will be grounded from this game for a month." Mike hurries to put everything up and turn the TV off and make it appear as though as he is asleep in his bed.
Mike's mom comes in to wake him up for the day, it is a weekend so he doesn't have school. His mom leaves to go fix breakfast and Mike gets up and looks out his window to see if there is any sign of that strage troll. He sees that a branch fell off a tree and Mike is taken back. "It didn't go by that tree, and there was no wind. So how did that branch break off?" Mike goes out to investigate. He is a pretty good climber so he climbs up to the spot were it appears it has broken off. He analyzes the spot and there is a strage blue powder on the tree. "What in the world is this" Mike says as he puts some on his finger and smells it. It smells like a mixture of ocean salt and coconuts. He scoops some up and puts it into a small bag he had in his pocket.
"MIKE!! TIME FOR BREAKFAST!!! And get out of that tree!!!!" Mike's mom yelled from inside the house. Mike lept from the branch he was standing on and landed with a graise that he didn't know he had. He ran towards the house ready to feast on his morning meal. When Mike opened the door and walked in the house, his plate was already on the table waiting for him. It had scrambled eggs, a few pieces of sausage links, a big glass of orange juice(with no pulp, Mike hates pulp), two big fluffy biscuits with butter melted on top, and a big mouth watering saucer of gravy. Mike marveled at his plate and sat in his chair ready to dig in.
After Mike is done eating he goes to his room and flops on his bed because of how full he is. He starts to dose off on his comfortable bed and hears a slight knock on his window. He gets up with a grunt and goes to the window. He opens his curtains and outside his window is waiting his friends, Chrystal and Rayne. Mike opens his window. "What are you guys doing here?" He asks his friends.
"You want to hang out for a while?" Chrystal asks Mike.
"We want to go out to the river." Rayne says with a devious smile.
"Um. Yea sure. Let me go ask my mom." Mike goes to the kitchen where his mom is finishing up the dishes. "Hey mom. My friends are wondering if I can hang out for a little bit."
"Where are you going to go?" His mom asks.
"They said that we are going to go to the river. Is that ok?"
"Yea. Be sure to be back by lunch. And call me when you are leaving." His mom says then continues on the dishes.
"Ok. Thank you." Mike says as he swiftly walks back to his window.
"So what did she say?" Rayne says with excitement.
"She said that I can go. And that I have to be back by lunch."
"YAY!!!" Chrystal says jumping up and down.
"Well what are you waiting for?? Lets get going!!" Rayne says while motioning Mike to hurry. Mike walks out of his room, "Bye mom. I'll see you later." he says as he is walking through the door. "So what are we going to do at the river?" Mike asks his friends as they are walking.
"Just hang out and have fun." Rayne says "And maybe play in the water a little bit." She says with a chuckle.
